Assignment #4 Paragraph: What aspects of human nature are examined in the story "The Most Dangerous Game"? Assignment #6 Complete the Literary Devises document for "The Most Dangerous Game". Upload to your wiki.
Short Stories - Literary Devises Title:_The most dangerous game
Point of View:1st person
Protagonist:Rainsford What type of character is the Protagonist? Round Antagonist:general Zaroff
Describe the setting: (time, place, mood and atmosphere) It's tense on a boat in the Carribean sea. It's calm on the water and quite on the boat.
Type of Conflict:man vs.man, man vs. enviroment
Describe the main conflict:Rainsford is trapped on an island with the General. He is obsessed with hunting and hunts humans as game, so when Rainsford swims to the island the General wants to have Rainsford be the ultimate prey. Zaroff tells him that if he cant hunt him within three days he will be set free Rainsford agrees. at the end off the three days they are both still alive and then it turns into a deathmatch. Seemingly Rainsford comes out as the victor.
Describe the Climax of the Story: When Ivan was killed by Rainsfords self propelled knife.
How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story?
He finds himself being the prey which drasticly alters the way he feels about hunting. He also kills two people and gets an island with dirty people in the basement.
Describe the relationship between the title and the theme.
The title insists that there is too be a dangerous game to occur and based on the theme of the story which is the struggle of the hunter.
How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme?
The main conflict is the hunter being the hunted
How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? It adds a real sense of make it or break it to the story as its now every man for himself.
Give examples of each of the following literary terms in the story (use quotes):
Simile:
Metaphor:
Personification:
Symbol:
Foreshadowing (give both elements):
Irony:
Imagery:
1. What is meant by “He lived a year in a minute”? /2
He was scared and it was a very tense moment so time seemed to go very slow. 2. What is meant by “I am still a beast at bay”? /2
This means he is still not done with the game and states that he is still in it. 3. In which sea has Connell set Ship-Trap island? /1
Caribbean sea. 4. How is Zaroff able to finance his life style? /2
He invested in american securities and through his fathers wealth. 5. If Rainsford wins the hunt, what does Zaroff promise him? /1
A ride on his sailboat to a town somewere on the mainland. 6. What happened to Lazarus? /2
He chased one game person into the swamp fields and died in quicksand. 7. Where does Rainsford spend the first night of his hunt? /1
In a tree. 8. How many acres did Zaroff’s father have in the Crimea? /1
A quarter million. 9. Why does Zarroff suggest Rainsford wear moccasins? /1
Because they make little to no tracks in the dirt. 10. What caused Rainsford to believe Zaroff knew he was hiding in the tree? Do you think he was right? Give reasons. /3 Zaroff new he was in the tree but left because it would have been too easy to shoot.
11. How does Zaroff stock his island with “game”? /2
He made a boat trap on his island so sailors on their boats would crash and then he would put them in his basement. 12. What happened to General Zaroff at the end of the story? /2
Rainsford said he wasnt done with the hunt and Zaroff agreed that one of them would lose the game and one would sleep in Zaroffs bed. In the last line rainsford proclares it was the best sleep he has had. 13. Inspite of being hurt, Zaroff congratulates Rainsford on his “Malay mancatcher,” why? /2
Because he was able too construct one and because he was smart enough to use it in the game. 14. How do we know Rainsford is an exceptionally fit man? /2
He is a hunter and because he can survive in the wild as he does. 15. Discuss the state of mind of Rainsford before he lands on the island versus that after he meets the General. What is different? (Especially about how he perceives animal feelings.)/5
He realizes that he acted like the hunter until he was hunted, then he realised what it is like to be the prey. 16. How does Connell inspire fear without obvious bloodshed/grotesqueness. /3
He takes a story with a character and puts him in the opposite place in the story were he is the prey and he is being hunted.
In the story The Most Dangerous Game, many aspects of human nature are shown through the journey of the protagnist. One example is when he is being hunted instead of being the hunter or when he is talking to general Zaroff about hunting. Another example is when he swims over to the generals house and says its not over until one of them is killed. 3/6
Assignment #4 Paragraph: What aspects of human nature are examined in the story "The Most Dangerous Game"?
Assignment #6
Complete the Literary Devises document for "The Most Dangerous Game". Upload to your wiki.
Short Stories - Literary Devises Title:_The most dangerous game
Point of View:1st person
Protagonist:Rainsford
What type of character is the Protagonist?
Round
Antagonist:general Zaroff
Describe the setting: (time, place, mood and atmosphere)
It's tense on a boat in the Carribean sea. It's calm on the water and quite on the boat.
Type of Conflict:man vs.man, man vs. enviroment
Describe the main conflict:Rainsford is trapped on an island with the General. He is obsessed with hunting and
hunts humans as game, so when Rainsford swims to the island the General wants to have Rainsford be the ultimate prey. Zaroff tells him that if he cant hunt him within three days he will be set free Rainsford agrees. at the end off the three days they are both still alive and then it turns into a deathmatch. Seemingly Rainsford comes out as the victor.
Describe the Climax of the Story: When Ivan was killed by Rainsfords self propelled knife.
How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story?
He finds himself being the prey which drasticly alters the way he feels about hunting. He also kills two people and gets an island with dirty people in the basement.
Describe the relationship between the title and the theme.
The title insists that there is too be a dangerous game to occur and based on the theme of the story which is the struggle of the hunter.
How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme?
The main conflict is the hunter being the hunted
How does the climax help to illustrate the theme?
It adds a real sense of make it or break it to the story as its now every man for himself.
Give examples of each of the following literary terms in the story (use quotes):
Simile:
Metaphor:
Personification:
Symbol:
Foreshadowing (give both elements):
Irony:
Imagery:
1. What is meant by “He lived a year in a minute”? /2
He was scared and it was a very tense moment so time seemed to go very slow.
2. What is meant by “I am still a beast at bay”? /2
This means he is still not done with the game and states that he is still in it.
3. In which sea has Connell set Ship-Trap island? /1
Caribbean sea.
4. How is Zaroff able to finance his life style? /2
He invested in american securities and through his fathers wealth.
5. If Rainsford wins the hunt, what does Zaroff promise him? /1
A ride on his sailboat to a town somewere on the mainland.
6. What happened to Lazarus? /2
He chased one game person into the swamp fields and died in quicksand.
7. Where does Rainsford spend the first night of his hunt? /1
In a tree.
8. How many acres did Zaroff’s father have in the Crimea? /1
A quarter million.
9. Why does Zarroff suggest Rainsford wear moccasins? /1
Because they make little to no tracks in the dirt.
10. What caused Rainsford to believe Zaroff knew he was hiding in the tree? Do you think he was right? Give reasons. /3
Zaroff new he was in the tree but left because it would have been too easy to shoot.
11. How does Zaroff stock his island with “game”? /2
He made a boat trap on his island so sailors on their boats would crash and then he would put them in his basement.
12. What happened to General Zaroff at the end of the story? /2
Rainsford said he wasnt done with the hunt and Zaroff agreed that one of them would lose the game and one would sleep in Zaroffs bed. In the last line rainsford proclares it was the best sleep he has had.
13. Inspite of being hurt, Zaroff congratulates Rainsford on his “Malay mancatcher,” why? /2
Because he was able too construct one and because he was smart enough to use it in the game.
14. How do we know Rainsford is an exceptionally fit man? /2
He is a hunter and because he can survive in the wild as he does.
15. Discuss the state of mind of Rainsford before he lands on the island versus that after he meets the General. What is different? (Especially about how he perceives animal feelings.)/5
He realizes that he acted like the hunter until he was hunted, then he realised what it is like to be the prey.
16. How does Connell inspire fear without obvious bloodshed/grotesqueness. /3
He takes a story with a character and puts him in the opposite place in the story were he is the prey and he is being hunted.
In the story The Most Dangerous Game, many aspects of human nature are shown through the journey of the protagnist. One example is when he is being hunted instead of being the hunter or when he is talking to general Zaroff about hunting. Another example is when he swims over to the generals house and says its not over until one of them is killed.
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